... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 35) Summer 1998 Last | Contents | Next Issue 35 Did Churchill reveal the pending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt two weeks before it happened?Below is what purports to a transcript of a telephone conversation recorded by the Germans during World War 2. If genuine, it shows, as has been alleged in the past, that Roosevelt was indeed warned of the impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. This appeared in the Internet newsletter, The Konformist on 11 March 1998. (On which see Sources below.) The Konformist's editor, Robert Sterling believes this to be a fake - largely ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 25) June 1993 Last | Contents | Next Issue 25 Churchill and The Focus Mike Hughes Introduction From 1935 until the outbreak of the Second World War Winston Churchill was a determined and vociferous opponent of the British government's policy of appeasing Hitler. In the popular imagination Churchill's prominence at the head of the anti-appeasement movement has become a picture of the prophet crying in the wilderness. A fantasy encouraged by himself and his friends, this was also a view endorsed by some of those who had sought to explain their support for appeasement in the light of some notion of a pro-appeasement consensus. ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 37) Sumer 1999 Last | Contents | Next Issue 37 The Churchill myth Churchill and Secret Service David Stafford, John Murray, London 1997, 25 John Newsinger Any book dealing with Winston Churchill must situate itself within one of two rival camps. On the one hand, there are the Churchillians, who regard him as one of the great men of the twentieth century, who dominates modern times and deserves personal credit for having saved Britain from defeat in the Second World War and the world from Nazi tyranny. This is still very much the dominant viewpoint and forms one of the cornerstones of conservative ideology ...

... Saved the West John Costello Bantam Press 1991 John Costello has set out to provide, in the words of the publisher's blurb, "the first behind the scenes account of the agonizing history of 1940'. His aim is to debunk the Churchillian myth that in 1940 Britain was united in its determination to fight Nazism to the bitter end. Churchill may have been resolute but Halifax, the Foreign Secretary and Butler, the second in command in the Foreign Office, were keen to come to an accommodation with Germany. With the collapse of France both considered that the war was unwinnable. To continue hostilities in the absence of any allies outside the Commomwealth and Empire risked a shattering defeat ...

... /7 /88) Zametica drops a few hints about this curious episode. In 1941, says Zametica, 'many powerful members of British society - political, military, commercial, among others - were dedicated to attaining peace. Losing money and apparently losing the war did not go down well with them. These people faced three problems: Churchill in Britain, Hitler in Germany, and a lack of strong leadership within their ranks. ' This is obviously true: from the point of view of the British ruling class, taking sides with the Bolsheviks against Germany was an absurdity. Yet it is still slightly shocking to read it stated as bluntly as that. Zametica offers some ...

... and no index. It reads as though Martin sat down and talked into a tape recorder and had the monologue transcribed. At a couple of places a British connection appears. Here is one of those sections. This will give you a feel of the style of the book.'....the infamous, sinister and renowned Churchill Matrix (sic) Corporation. This was an MI-6 deal and their personal hand-picked boy was Paul Henderson. This became public in 1988. In that lawsuit, the criminal action in London, where MI-6 finally had to admit it was one of their cut-outs and that in fact it had been ...

... need here to go into detail about the British wartime political economy. (72) Suffice it to say that the government introduced planning, the conscription of labour, intensified rationing and exchange controls, and abandoned the balanced budget in favour of the Keynesian technique of national income accounting. Desperate for American munitions, capital goods and food, the Churchill Coalition made a highly unequal exchange of strategic bases in the Caribbean for a handful of old US Navy destroyers, foreshadowing Lend-Lease and the dependence on the United States which Chamberlain and his supporters has been so keen to avoid. Although appeasement ceased to be official government policy from the moment Churchill became Prime Minister, Halifax, Hoare ...

... ? Was he duped by the British into attempting the solo peace mission that landed him in prisons for the rest of his long life? Or was the daring 900-mile flight on Saturday, 10 May 1941,1 part of a failed coup d'état by certain well-known high Tories, attempting a ceasefire with Nazi Germany by removing Churchill as war leader? The facts about May 10, just six weeks before the German invasion of Russia, remain so uncertain that professional historians have tended to give the affair a wide berth. The disastrous peace mission by Rudolf Hess was, apparently, equally unexpected by both sides. In the decades since, it has come to be ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 37) Sumer 1999 Last | Contents | Next Issue 37 This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair Hugo Young Macmillan, 1998, 20 I cannot stand Hugo Young. He is a long-winded, pompous arsehole whose columns in the Guardian are mostly a waste of paper and ink. But he has his uses, notably as a mouthpiece for the Foreign Office. In this book he has revealed in infinitely greater detail than before the way the British Foreign Office conspired - yes: conspired - to get Britain into the EEC/EC/EU. This is a book the ...